Now that's odd. I drove up past there on Wednesday 30th, just before the May Bank Holiday, and back again on Monday 5th. If the ModPlods are guarding Faslane, then they're in the wrong loch altogether. And even if it's Coulport they're involved with, that's actually over a dozen sea miles away to the south.
Now, there's a one-time fuelling jetty at Arddarroch, a few miles north of Garelochhead, but that's currently being recycled by some civilian firms - and certainly the security guards are civilian, for I spoke with one of them. Mind you, I wouldn't put it beyond possibility that the Glen Douglas NATO Special Weapons storage facility - once the largest nuclear target in Europe - is being recycled for a broadly similar purpose.
It still doesn't explain what ModPlods were doing, 'swanning' about at our expense up by Arrochar.
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